A little air-vest humor to kick-start your Tuesday morning from Morgane Schmidt, equine illustrator extraordinaire. Morgane posts a brand new comic each Wednesday on Horse Nation, and you can view her entire collection on website The Idea of Order.
And now for your news:
Events Opening Today
Morven Park Spring H.T. (VA, A-2), Full Gallop Farm H.T. (SC, A-3), Rocking Horse Spring H.T. (FL, A-3), Texas Rose Horse Park H.T. (TX, A-5), Galway Downs International Horse Trials (CA, A-6)
Events Closing Today
Rocking Horse Winter III H.T. (FL, A-3), Sporting Days Farm Horse Trials (SC, A-3), MeadowCreek Park – The Spring Social Event (TX, A-5), Twin Rivers Winter H.T. (CA, A-6)
Training Sessions: The High Performance Training Sessions get underway today at Stable View Farm in Aiken. Here are the times for today’s flatwork sessions:
8:00 Jennie Brannigan/Cambalda
8:45 Boyd Martin/Trading Aces
9:30 Boyd Martin/Crackerjack/Master Frisky or Neville Bardos
10:15 Boyd Martin/Crackerjack/Master Frisky or Neville Bardos
11:00 Phillip Dutton/Mighty Nice
11:45 Phillip Dutton/Fernhill Eagle
12:30 Lunch
1:00 Allison Springer/Copycat Chloe
1:45 Susan Beebee/Wolf
2:30 Emily Beshear/Here’s To You
3:15 Doug Payne/Crown Talisman
4:00 Holly Payne/Santino
4:45 Erin Sylvester/No Boundaries
Please visit www.stableviewfarm.com
[USEF Eventing High Performance Facebook page]
Canada’s Horse of the Year: The 2012 honor was recently bestowed upon Northern Dancer, the influential Canadian-bred thoroughbred sire. Born in 1961, Northern Dancer died over 20 years ago but his legacy is still felt today–his descendents took home nine out of 11 flat-racing trophies at this year’s Eclipse Awards, and his great-grandson Frankel was widely regarded as the best racehorse in the world in 2012. [Horse Talk NZ]
USDA Animal Disease Traceability Program: Starting March 11, a health certificate will be required to travel over state lines. Horse owners can procure an Equine Interstate Event Permit (eastern United States) or Equine Certificate of Veterinary Inspection and Interstate Movement Permit (western United States), which is valid for six months. [COTH]
Down South: British showjumper and Olympic gold medalist Ben Maher is showing ’em how it’s done at WEF, having just won his second grand prix class. [Horse & Hound] Meanwhile, the Palm Beach Dressage Derby, to be held Feb. 28-Mar. 3, is gearing up to celebrate its 30th anniversary as the oldest event in South Florida. [Dressage-News]
Best of the Blogs: Boyd Martin recaps his weekend at Pine Top here; Doug Payne recaps his here.
Video: The good folks at Schramm Eventing demonstrate proper technique for jumping up and down banks on this week’s episode of Evention.
